Reading Connections helps adults learn to read, write, speak and listen better. Our students work one-on-one with a tutor or in a small group based on their needs and skills. We want to help our students get good jobs and be good parents and neighbors.

Adult Education
Our Adult Education program helps people (who can speak English) become better readers and writers. We have some students who cannot read at all and others who just need a little extra help.

ESOL
ESOL is English for Speakers of Other Languages. This program helps adults learn to speak, read and write in English. We have students from all over the world who speak many different languages and who want to learn English.

GED®
The GED® is a group of tests that someone can take if they did not get a high school diploma. When you pass all five tests, you get a GED®, which is a lot like a diploma. We help people study for the GED®.

Computers
Lots of jobs and schools need people to know about computers. Reading Connections has a computer lab to help students learn about computers. Plus, if you learn to use a computer, it can help you to read better.

Family LiteracyMany people come to Reading Connections because they want to be able to read to their children or help their kids with homework. Reading Connections has small group classes for moms, dads, and other caregivers who want to improve reading and writing skills to teach your children.

Workforce Development Literacy
We provide classes to help adults develop the skills necessary to find or keep a job. We help adults improve their basic skills, learn English, or improve specific skills needed for career advancement. We also provide Career Coaching services to students who need help finding a job.

Self-Guided ActivitiesPlease contact us if you experience problems accessing any of these links.

Stories that have movies and sound. There are also quizzes to take and new words to study.
Online lessons that can play audio of written text on a variety of cultural, civic, and current events topics.

Play a match game, hangman, do a word search, or a quiz to learn new words.
Subjects include animals, food, kitchen, transportation, vegetables, and musical instruments.
There are easy, medium, and hard levels. This can also be used for ESOL students.

A variety of great online activities. Includes Story by Story Phonics, which features simple stories for beginning readers that focus on phonics.
Also includes life skills activities, such as how to write a check. The lessons have sound and movies. This site can also be used for ESOL students.

Basic picture dictionary with spelling activities and word games. Activities on the site include flashcards, fill-in-the-blanks, word scrambles,
stinky spelling, and straight recall. French, Italian, Spanish and German versions are also available.

This site features a large collection of worksheets and activities for beginning readers.
Although sometimes geared toward elementary school students, it is a great resource for adult learners as well.

A great tool for both intermediate to advanced ABE and ESOL students, this site features online
activities for vocabulary, grammar, math, geography, and more. You can choose levels of difficulty,
which will adjust depending on your answers. Each correct answer donates ten grains of rice to the UN World Food Program.

A large list of educational resources, divided by subject area. It is mostly designed with advanced learners in mind,
but there are helpful links under Math and Language Arts that can be good resources for teaching math and literacy skills.

The Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education is a partner of Reading Connections.
SCALE places workers at various non-profits devoted to literacy throughout North Carolina for a year or two of service.

Play a match game, hangman, do a word search, or a quiz to learn new words.
Subjects include animals, food, kitchen, transportation, vegetables, and musical instruments.
There are easy, medium, and hard levels. This can also be used for ABE students.

A great tool for both intermediate to advanced ABE and ESOL students, this site features online activities for vocabulary,
grammar, math, geography, and more. You can choose levels of difficulty, which will adjust depending on your answers.
Each correct answer donates ten grains of rice to the UN World Food Program.

This site is good for drill and practice in basic math. Use the website to make your own flashcards and worksheets,
or you can play some interesting math games. Worksheets can be printed out for basic math, algebra, fractions, money, and decimals.